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Baghdad Railway Sabotage Landing

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1915Date range
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Chronological records

1915

Guy D'Oyly Hughes20 August 1915

Gulf of Izmit · Warfare / World War, 1st

D'Oyly-Hughes swims ashore from E11 and damages the Constantinople-Baghdad railway line.

Names involved

Guy D'Oyly Hughes

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